Top 17 Objective-C OSX Projects

• hammerspoon

  114 11,498 7.3 Objective-C

  Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

  

Project mention: Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-21

Another option for hacking something like this together could be HammerSpoon. I’ve spent some time with it, but haven’t tried integrating with Apple Notes, I mostly did stuff at the file system level to keep it easy.

https://www.hammerspoon.org/

• Sloth

  21 8,154 6.7 Objective-C

  Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes. Nice GUI for lsof.

Project mention: Why can't MacOS just TELL ME which program is using the drive I'm trying to eject rather than just have me guess? | /r/MacOS | 2023-07-05

That said, after I learned about how to use lsof, I found this little free app called =Sloth (and its github page ), which is just a nice native Mac app serving as a GUI for lsof. It'll let you know exactly which process to quit or kill so your drive can eject happily.

• InfluxDB

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• terminal-notifier

  7 6,283 0.0 Objective-C

  Send User Notifications on macOS from the command-line.

• Platypus

  6 2,713 7.1 Objective-C

  Create native Mac applications from command line scripts.

Project mention: Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-23

Something for which I wish there was a windows variant...

Embedding a script into a small tray icon/menubar app can be extremely powerfull even with its low complexity.

[1]: https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus

• syncthing-macos

  11 2,523 6.7 Objective-C

  Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle

  

Project mention: How do I setup Syncthing on my TUC and my Macbook? Please I'm going insane. | /r/Syncthing | 2023-06-24

• SubEthaEdit

  2 1,355 0.0 Objective-C

  General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.

  

• Strongbox

  64 1,275 5.9 Objective-C

  A KeePass/Password Safe Client for iOS and OS X

  

Project mention: Ask HN: Best Password Manager without cloud login? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-04

I followed a similar path as you did about a year ago. Having tried a bunch of options, I can recommend strongly Strongbox - fantastic native apps for iOS and macOS, with your choice of sync mechanism (local-only is also a first class citizen), and it uses the KeePass file format so you can use your client of choice on other operating systems/no worries about lock-in. Good system integration and autofill extensions. I also appreciated that there was an option for a one-time purchase.

https://strongboxsafe.com

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• MacForge

  4 1,012 2.2 Objective-C

  📦 Plugin, App, and Theme store which includes plugin injection for macOS

  

Project mention: The History of Cover Flow | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-15

• spaces-renamer

  6 979 3.2 Objective-C

  💻 Ability to rename desktop spaces on macOS 10.10+

• mySIMBL

  4 976 0.0 Objective-C

  :package: Plugin manager for macOS

Project mention: The History of Cover Flow | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-15

I also miss the icons for drives showing up in the finder window sidebar. Now, all drives' icons are ignored and replaced by generic, OS-assigned icons. Rather than having a visual cue of what to click on, one must read the name. Seems trivial, but it sucks and I hate it.

A couple projects tried to keep the sidebar icons alive using mySIMBL (1) and later MacForge (2) but they've sadly all been abandoned. (I think.) They never really worked all that well, requiring finder-rebooting and various shenanigans to get them to run (if memory serves.)

(1) https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL

• blueutil

  3 933 4.7 Objective-C

  CLI for bluetooth on OSX: power, discoverable state, list, inquire devices, connect, info, …

• yubiswitch

  1 864 2.9 Objective-C

  OSX status bar application to enable/disable Yubikey Nano

• seashore

  8 425 6.0 Objective-C

  easy to use mac osx image editing application for the rest of us

• MusaicFM

  3 292 0.0 Objective-C

  Screensaver inspired by Apple’s inbuilt iTunes Screensaver. It can display Artwork by Spotify or last.fm Profile Data.

• grsyncx

  1 88 0.0 Objective-C

  Brain-free rsync GUI – Native Mac GUI app for rsync inspired by grsync ♻️

• ManOpen

  1 22 0.0 Objective-C

  A macOS GUI application for viewing Unix manual pages.

• Hackintosh-LegionY530-High_Sierra

  1 3 0.0 Objective-C

  Clover EFi files to boot into High Sierra in LegionY530

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• Why can't MacOS just TELL ME which program is using the drive I'm trying to eject rather than just have me guess?

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